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Great Britain’s Charlie Dobson produced a stunning tally successful the Diamond League play finale successful Brussels to triumph the men’s 400 metres.
The 24-year-old charged done successful the closing stages to triumph with a clip of 44.49 seconds for the biggest triumph of his career.
"Charlie held his signifier incredibly well," said BBC commentator Steve Cram. "He raced through. He has been precise accordant successful this portion each twelvemonth and helium is 1 to ticker for adjacent year. He volition person a superb 2025."
Olympic 400m metallic medallist Matthew Hudson-Smith saw his situation thwarted aboriginal arsenic helium appeared to propulsion up with cramp.
Kirani James of Grenada finished 2nd with a clip of 44.63s portion Zambia’s Muzala Samukonga was 3rd with 44.69s.
Meanwhile, Britain's Dina Asher-Smith narrowly missed retired connected triumph successful the women's 100m.
The 28-year-old, who won metallic successful the 4x100m relay astatine this summer's Paris Games, finished 0.04 seconds down Olympic champion Julien Alfred of St Lucia, who crossed the decorativeness enactment with a clip of 10.88s.
Alfred's US rival Sha'Carri Richardson finished eighth successful the nine-woman field, having eased disconnected good earlier the enactment arsenic triumph became retired of reach.
Second marks a affirmative extremity to the play for Asher-Smith, who failed to scope the last of the 100m successful Paris aft finishing 5th successful her semi-final.
Ivorian Marie-Josee Ta Lou-Smith finished 3rd with Britain's Daryll Neita fourth.
Elsewhere, Sweden's Armand Duplantis finished an unbeaten p[ole vault play connected a precocious with a 15th and last triumph of the year.
Duplantis acceptable a caller gathering grounds with 6.11m but was incapable to amended connected his ain satellite grounds which helium acceptable for a 10th clip connected 25 August with a vault of 6.26m successful Poland.
"My legs felt unspeakable contiguous and I'm conscionable truly tired," helium said.
"That took a batch much from my assemblage that I expected. With 6.11m I got a bully result, but the satellite grounds wasn't meant to beryllium tonight."
Jamaica's Ackeem Blake won the men's 100m successful 9.93s up of Americans Christian Coleman (10.00s) and Olympic bronze medallist Fred Kerley (10.01s).
Olympic and satellite champion Marileidy Paulino continued her dominance connected the way by winning the women's 400m.
The Dominican Republic jock took triumph with a clip 49.45s.
She is unbeaten successful one-lap contention since past year's Diamond League conscionable successful Silesia, Poland. Ireland's Rhasidat Adeleke finished third.
Finally, Norway's Jakob Ingebrigtsen took triumph successful the men's 1500m with a clip of 3 minutes and 30.37 seconds, holding disconnected Kenya's Timothy Cheruiyot and Paris Games victor Cole Hocker.
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